To mat stone

> Have also had 7 sessions with a clinical psychologist which proved waste of time/money> > ps. have only been recieving treatment for 6 months> > mat

You might want to check again into psychologists. My experience has been that without both meds and talk, the symptoms may get better, but then they get worse again.

If that therapist didn't click for you, try another. I interviewed 14 of them when I was looking, paid for one appointment with each, then narrowed the field and went to a couple again, then made my decision. Especially for something like social phobia, it seems pretty intuitive that talking to someone about it would help a lot.